I know nothing about the Book of Proverbs, except that—Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Glory Be! Hosanna in the Highest!—it is not the Book of Psalms. Based on the name “Proverbs,” I suspect it’s going ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

When Birmingham author Askhari Johnson Hodari was feeling low in 2006 over a spate of deaths involving friends and family, it was a Jamaican proverb that changed her mood. Her writing partner in ...

Tonight I’m attending a new support group for Christians who want to be better stewards of our money. This fall we’ll be reading from Mark Scandrette’s book Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What ...

Answer: There are different ways to interpret Scripture and still honor God's Word. The most common choices are literal or figurative. Some passages we understand to be literal truths; they will ...

As a personal finance coach, I have spent years teaching the principles of wise money management. But long before financial literacy became a buzzword, the Bible already provided profound wisdom on ...

When I was very young, I remember going with my parents to visit my great-aunt Charlotte in another neighborhood in Philadelphia. She was of a great age and lived in a house that I thought very dark ...

There are things in this world often unseen, things that appear normal at first, but then careen wildly into the world of the weird when left to their own devices. Sometimes all it takes is a ...